Carl Loft and the Oover Monster
Jason Brown
£12.99
SYNOPSIS
Carl Loft and the Oover Monster is a humorous story aimed at 5-7 year olds that deals with a small child’s fear of inanimate objects. To help him solve this problem the title character employs the services of real monsters from around his home to help him scare away the most terrifying of all inanimate horrors, his mother’s villainous vacuum cleaner, the Oover Monster! The moral of the story is Carl’s discovery that fear is all in mind.
The Tree Girl
Eccio Casanta Urrutia
Price TBC
SYNOPSIS
Miguel, a daring and undaunted boy, goes out for a walk despite his mother’s refusal. On his walk, he meets Alice, a mysterious girl next to an enormous tree in the forest. Alice tells him her magical and sad story that united her to that tree by the spell of the Moon. Miguel is willing to help her and to do everything in his hand, but… Will Miguel be able to help Alicia to get rid of the spell? A multi-lingual children’s story book.
Cheese!
Chris Douch
£7.99
SYNOPSIS
An enthusiastic cheese goes on a mission to take the perfect photo of his friends and learns to celebrate the things that make us all unique.
The Unremarkable Little Ghost
Younjeong Kim
£6.00
SYNOPSIS
In a world where only black and white exists, a little ghost finds the colour yellow. This simple colour changes everything, leading a journey of wonder, courage, and what it truly means to be confident.
Lexie and the Lion
Norm Chung
£7.99
SYNOPSIS
A gift from an uncle encourages a child to explore the world around her.
Stick or Twist. The Niko Grant Adventures
Edward J. Christie
£9.99
SYNOPSIS
Having never kissed a girl, 16-year-old Niko has a lot on his mind. But things get much worse when returning home from school, he finds his dad being tormented by criminals. They are trying to extract valuable information about secret government testing on the River Thames. With his own life now in danger, Niko must make a decision… Does he stick or does he twist? He twists, and makes his escape helped by his friend, Jacinta. Chased by the criminal gang, the teenagers flee along the Thames in a battered old canoe towards London. They try to unlock the mystery held by the water by following a set of weird clues linking old gravestones to pollution, death and even murder!
A Cactus Called Ironside
Kath Crew
£9.99
SYNOPSIS
Memories. Her pants flying from the flagpole? She hopes no one remembers that. The spiky cactus? She can’t forget him. His prickly spines a reminder of the truth that haunts her. It’s the 1980s. Lady Di has married Charles and Brideshead Revisited is on the TV. Veronica McNamara is dreaming of a universe beyond her mother’s hairdressing salon and her father’s betting shop. She leaves their thirties semi in search of a toff with a teddy and a stately home. But away from the pebbledash and crazy paving, Barking’s Biggest Bookworm discovers university life is not quite as expected. As she strives to fit in, Roni is caught up in a series of amusing, absurd and alarming circumstances. An unlikely romance flourishes against the real-life backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain and the miners’ strike. Forty years on, a college reunion sparks a series of events and Roni realises the past is never far away. She is not the only one who has been economical with the truth and must confront what happened before she can look to the future. This humorous coming-of-age story about self-realisation reminds us that there’s a prickly cactus on all our windowsills.
The Next Girl
Patsy Hughes
£8.99
SYNOPSIS
Rosie isn’t the first to experience ‘The Max Effect’, but could she be the last? In 70’s London love appears to be free and easy for everyone – but psychology lecturer Max has a type, and art student Rosie is his latest obsession. Enraptured by his confidence, intellect and desire to know her deepest self, Rosie plunges headlong into a relationship that promises authenticity, but threatens to unravel the tapestry of her rich and colourful life. Against a backdrop of anti-war protests, the emergence of the contraceptive pill, and an array of hallucinogenic drugs, we follow the fate of vibrant Slade student Rosie, as she crosses paths with an R.D. Laing disciple for whom every aspect of life is further psychological study. Like the many women before her, Rosie seems destined to lose everything in the quest for the ultimate truth, until a catastrophic event shakes her to her senses and helps her forge a path to free herself from Max’s all-consuming hold.
Lady of The Quay
Amanda Roberts
£9.99
SYNOPSIS
Knowing she is innocent is easy … proving it is hard. 1560, Berwick-upon-Tweed, northern England. Following the unexpected death of her father, a series of startling discoveries about the business she inherits forces Isabella Gillhespy to re-evaluate everything she understands about her past and expects from her future. Facing financial ruin, let down by people on whom she thought she could rely, and suspected of crimes that threaten her freedom, Isabella struggles to prove her innocence. But the stakes are even higher than she realises. In a town where tension between England and her Scottish neighbours is never far from the surface, it isn’t long before developments attract the interest of the highest authority in the land, Sir William Cecil, and soon Isabella is fighting, not just for her freedom, but her life. She must use her wits and trust her own instincts to survive. Lady of the Quay introduces an enticing new heroine who refuses to be beaten, even as it becomes clear that her life will never be the same again.
The Sometime Embarrassments of Petty Veniz
Martin Harrington
£10.99
SYNOPSIS
Life in the ancient university city of Petty Veniz, a magical blend of Oxford and Venice, has been tranquil for centuries. But that changes when, following a series of bizarre developments, it is invaded by an immense international Crusade. Petty Veniz will never be the same again — for it seems the Apocalypse is at hand.
Mind Over Murder
Jake Lynch, Annabel McGoldrick
£9.99
SYNOPSIS
When journalist-turned-therapist Janna Rose is called to identify the body of her old flame Daniel, she has a feeling that something doesn’t add up. Daniel’s death came right after he led an eco-protest against a controversial development. As police drag their feet, Janna investigates the killing herself. Following a trail of cryptic clues from her last conversation with Daniel, she begins to uncover a conspiracy, which reaches all the way into her consulting room. Digging deeper, Janna realizes that she and her dear ones are in peril. With lives at stake, she must risk everything to outwit her ruthless adversary and expose the truth.
The Art of Killing
C.R. Clarke
£8.99
SYNOPSIS
A chance discovery of something unimaginable will steer Detective Patrick Gutteridge’s life down a path littered with memories of his past, memories he’s spent a decade trying to forget. For two years, Gloucester’s provincial streets have glowed to the media interest gifted by the works of an anonymous graffiti artist ― Tick-Tock. But the art is changing, distorting, each piece becoming more perverse and contentious than the last. Only DI Gutteridge sees a pattern forming which points to something far more sinister looming on the horizon. Can he decipher it in time to prevent the impending storm, or will the city be forced to wear the infamy of a series of events so shocking; it threatens to stain its streets forever. Who is the artist turned killer? What malevolent force drives them? And who can decode their warping message in time to stop the bloodshed? Only time will tell, but time is fast running out!
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